Imperial College medicine applicants 2016

So did I, but when I asked them, they explained that the interviews will happen until the end of March and as they give around two weeks of notice before the interview, the invites will be given out until March. But I wouldn't be surprised if they gave out some offers before everyone is done with their interview!

Not sure who to believe anymore.. :/

Had an interview yesterday and they said "we will let you know in 2 weeks". Do you think the result will be any sooner or is it in 2 weeks?

Hi! Has anyone not heard back from imperial yet? I haven't had an interview or a rejection so don't really know what to think...

A couple of people who had interviews on the 15th/16th of Dec had offers on the 18th (2-3 days later) but I think that's because they had academic scholarships as the majority have not heard back yet. Either way, 2 weeks is a very short period of time to wait!

Good luck

How do you get an academic scholarship?

How do you get an academic scholarship?

Impress at interview, they have a box on their interview sheets that say whether they think you should get one.

That's a different scholarship I think :P there are scholarships for interview performance and one for academic excellence iirc!

Huh really, didn't know there was more than one option, only knew about the President's scholarship they emailed us about.
If that's the case then I'd love to get the academic scholarship since that would be the only reason for me to take Imperial over a Scottish medical school because £9k a year + £11k living expenses = poor student stereotype

Here's the link to the ones available (based on interview performance)

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/study/undergraduate/scholarships/

Yeah I'm not counting on my interview alone being good enough for a scholarship, must have been the biggest amount of superficial bull**** I've ever said at an interview. I wonder if they can reallocate scholarships from the people who got awarded one but didn't firm Imperial, but probably not.

They nominate more than 8 people for the scholarships after the interview and then wait for you to firm the offer, then everyone must submit an 2000 (+/-10%) word limit essay on the topic they give you and then the best 8 are allocated the scholarships, which is a pretty intense process!

bleh essays, I was hoping I left those behind with Higher English last year. I guess they won't give out too many nominations since Imperial is a lot of peoples' first choice, although a lot of the best applicants at Imperial probably got offers from Oxbridge too. Wow it must suck to be an Imperial admissions tutor and have all your best applicants taken every year...

anyone know what the interview: offer ratio is like for imperial. Im getting pretty nervous because my Cardiff interview was awful, got rejected from sheffield and havent heard from UCL

I'm in the same situation too, worried my bmat might just miss the cut off

yeah same, mine was a bit low but if it was that they would have rejected us already right?

I think it depends how you view it, it's more likely that the people awarded academic scholarships would get Oxbridge offers too but I'd say the better interview performers (hence got the interview performance scholarship) were the better applicants as being a doctor is more than just academics but about being well-rounded. It's also not unheard of for people to reject Oxbridge offers for imperial(/other unis in general) because the traditional course structure isn't that appealing for a lot of people and other unis offer more integrated courses (if you check out Cambridge's applicant thread, someone got an offer and is considering turning it down if they get one from Cardiff!)

I think they put people into bands based on BMAT score, so if you haven't been rejected yet it's possible you're in one of the lower bands which is for borderline scores - kind of like a waiting list in case more spaces open up. May I ask what you got on your BMAT? Cut-off will probably be around 4.5 4.5 2.5B